Sentences with phrase «from cultural pressures»

How can we escape from these cultural pressures, and instead only purchase what we truly need, from the most sustainable sources available?

There are all sorts of reasons people might find maths difficult: from cultural pressures that limit achievement to...

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But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Rather, the political and cultural pressure has been coming from the left — from Obergefell champions and theological revisionists, secular and religious alike.

Most often, we do not even know that a battle for our mind is underway, but our minds are constantly bombarded from every direction, through our five senses, through the spiritual realm, through cultural and social pressure, through memories and imagination, and through a wide variety of other sources.

In Scripture we learn that solitude can be a subversive act against the cultural and social pressures that come from constantly subjecting oneself to the opinions and judgments of others.

At a birth, dads, partners and grandparents benefit greatly from a doula's support as well, freeing them to experience the birth without the added cultural pressure of being mom's sole support.

These include: cultural beliefs and pressures (e.g. anxiety about breastfeeding in public, beliefs about adequacy of milk supply); lack of availability of trained support; legislation to protect women who are breastfeeding; and commercial pressures from marketing and advertising of formula by manufacturers (Save the Children 2013).

Given the fact that any cultural issue is easily politicized in the republic, such a complex situation creates many opportunities for Russia to exert pressures against Chisinau and effectively prevent Moldova from joining the Euro - Atlantic system.

«Admittedly, we came under intense persuasive pressure from genuinely concerned national, political, traditional, religious and cultural leaders prominent among which were; a section of the Northern Governors Forum under its Chairman, Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state, northern traditional rulers and the Department of State Services DSS.

«The greater pressure to conform to gender roles that North African French boys feel may be a response to contrasting messages about social status they are exposed to - one from their ethnic and cultural groups that says masculinity has greater power and prestige, the other from the broader social context that says their ethnic and cultural groups have lower status and are discriminated against.»

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

The documentary about WWII - era art theft, discusses how NPR first did a fact - based article on the art theft and then actually retracted their own story under pressure from the cultural elites in the museum world.

At the present moment in Toronto, many people are feeling pressure from the shifting and changing social, cultural and political environment.

From the theatre of war, territorial conquest, the pressure to politically conform and acquiesce to authority; to the touristic monopolies and mythological superstitions that perpetuate popular cultural stereotype — this exhibition is a glimpse of the talent that visually and metaphorically rephrases the presence of a political voice.»

That show was assembled as the result of direct pressure from the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, a group that organized in 1969 in response to a show of Harlem artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A New York Times report, «The Disrupters: Making New York's Cultural Boards More Diverse,» shows pressure from the city is yielding some results at institutions that have historically been the exclusive bastion of wealthy white patrons.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

Under these conditions, in regions, states, and cities it will not only be easier to gain public support from across the political and cultural spectrum, but it will also give members of Congress and future presidents, if they can be pressured into returning to the business of governing, more options by which to reach agreement on actions that address climate change.27

Despite intense competitive pressures, Altman Weil's report finds that law firm partnerships suffer from cultural inertia, if not outright apathy.